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▪ I. † ˈsteadful, a. Sc. and north. Obs. rare. [f. stead n. + -ful.] Serviceable.
1585–6Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 52 The settling of a steidfull and continewing ordour of the ministeris stipendis. a1600Flodden F. vii. (1664) 67 Yet they such stedful faiths did bear. ▪ II. † ˈsteadful, v. Obs. rare—1. [f. stead n. + full a.] trans. (An etymological rendering of locupletāre to enrich.)
a1300E.E. Psalter lxiv. 10 Þou soght þe land, and dronkened it yhite; Þou mani-falded to stedful ite [Vulg. multiplicasti locupletare]. |